And that didn't work. Apparently the extension was a little confusing. It was altering texture maps by copying the model and rebuilding it which ironically is exactly what I've been doing in my own code. I think the long term solution short of some hail mary magic texture mapping extension is to just make the terrain for 3D turn based. This might be better anyways as then I can start having enemies be in the levels directly instead of encounters. This might be easier in the long run. However, I'll first start checking for lag. Some of it may have been due to my egregious code whereby I stored my copy of the model sparsely in an array. Making a more direct representation might make things run faster. It is also possible that the rendering itself is the bottleneck in which the issue boils down to my pc being bad. Whatever the case I'll continue investigating. However, I am definitely sticking to Game Maker. Going to a pure code setup would be a bad idea at this point (or switching to any engine at this point).
I am not all trying to be wishy washy here but I've gone back to game maker. It just kind of had to go that way. So it turns out my problem solved itself in a roundabout way. The issue I've been having is with the 3D functionality which I was planning to restrict as a small easter egg in maybe a hidden level somewhere. The problem was that I couldn't do dynamic texturing without redrawing a texture each frame (bad) or reconstructing a model each frame (very bad). So I tried to leave my entire thing behind and rebuild it (stupid). So I was stuck with inefficient unsuitable 3D stuff if I ever chose to go that way.
Then I remembered Game Maker can do extensions, which I had somehow never bothered to try using for some reason. Anyways, I found a free extension that I can use to change model texture mapping at runtime! It claims to be very fast and was made by a reputable person on the old game maker forums who also made a model editor I sometimes use in other stuff I do in between making this.
I should also explain as some people might be confused why this page has been here so fricken long with no game. This is just for leisure. I'm not selling this. This isn't a job. I just work on this in the evenings here and there. That isn't to say I don't care about quality. I am pretty meticulous (except when it comes to art but I think I've improved over the years it with revisions here and there). I apologize for anyone wanting this sooner. I'm going to try and devote some more time to it. I think partly I got frustrated by the 3D issue and that left a bad taste in my mouth. Now I think I might be able to truly do some cool stuff beyond what I've currently done so far.
Due to efficiency reasons among other things such as game maker having poor support for data structures that properly worked, I've switched to using C++ with a few basic graphics libraries. It has been that way for a little while now. It won't be that hard to rebuild what I have so far, especially when i don't have to continually reinvent the wheel.
Hold on a sec? Is that avatar because you a new user, lol? Here I was thinking that meant banned user. I thought have the people in this thread were banned. Oops. My bad.
I really don't wish to get involved here, but I will just say that the sheer number of banned users in this chat disgusts me. People, this is a VIDEO GAME forum. Whether or not racism or counter-racism is justified here is completely /irrelevant/. We're here to play a game, not debate racist attitudes. Anyways.... I'm not here to play the game. Just saw this post on the forums and figured I should post it here. Honestly, all of you should probably just shut up and let it go. IMO, this whole discussion thread is a giant mass of irrelevant /spam/.
Looks like I_am_Canadian got called out here:
Also, I am not a "peenoy" as Canadian puts it. So, don't start coming at me. I'm only here to post the mention for future reference.
Well well well. Strange seeing you here. So how's the games going? Doing any more 3D projects lately? I saw something about a new 3D game a while back.
Lets hope that any price discrepancies lead to people paying less than they thought they would! :D
Could you slow down the gif a little somehow? It's a little hard to view due to the speed...
Why are randomly friending me? Do I know you?
The current limit is 571,360 friends, but that number grows pretty fast. You can see it in the user ranking on your profile. Just subtract one and that's how many friends you can have.
That looks awesome. I love how a bunch of skeletons get thrown out as if Cthulhu is digging a tunnel to the surface.
After getting hit by one of those, the player really will be /stooping/. :P
I was moldy curious where I ended up placing if only for idle self indulgence. It would in general to see the placement if only out of curiosity as to how distributed things got (like in a statistical sense as in whether all games revived or only the concentrated top 10,000 or so got votes). Mostly just curious. It's neat seeing that kind of statistical voting stuff. :)
So how does one see the number of votes games have received so far, or is not knowing part of the suspense?
I know that, but it is still amazing. Great job on the game!
This game was created less than a week ago and it's already at the top. Wow, this thing did well!
For weeks now after the release of Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, people have been perplexed as to the identity of the child within the game. The community has been torn between many parallel perspectives. From it being the bite of 1987 to really being in 1983, from people saying he’s the puppet to saying he’s Fredbear or even Balloon Boy. I don’t even know how they could’ve thought of Balloon Boy of all characters?!?
So is the child the puppet or fredbear? Well first I have to ask how the child died. I’m sure that most people who end up reading this will say that he died from collapse of Fredbear’s head crushing his skull, and that is true, but not exactly what I am getting at. What I mean to say is that he didn’t die within the establishment. He died in the hospital. Now look at this photo. Two things should pop out at you. First of all, the puppet has a skull in it, but the child who died had his skull crushed. Second of all, how could the child’s skull even wind up in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza to begin with? He died in a hospital and was likely buried in a cemetery. For someone to take his skull and put it in a puppet in a children’s restaurant without getting caught would mean that this stuffer of bodies is some kind of master thief. It’s not likely. Furthermore, the only one’s other than the puppet that are stuffed are stuffed by the puppet for the express purpose of destroying Purple Man and generally trying to kill the night guards. This would imply that the Puppet has a grudge towards him in some so as to motivate it to bring back other victims who have died. He needs to be a victim for it to make sense, and so the Puppet must be the original victim, presumably stuffed by the Purple Man… until he realized his error, and that the child was reborn as the Puppet.
People have been complaining for a while that the child cannot be Fredbear, though, because there already is a spirit following you around. Now, one could say it’s an imaginary friend, but I doubt Scott is going there. On Scott’s website, he posted a photo of a dark Fredbear plush. It’s the one within the game. With careful manipulation, two images can be revealed in the background. Pasting the two on top of each other in either order reveals the following scene. It shows the Fredbear Plush in the night gameplay on the bed. To the right is some kind of slender bodied thing appearing to control it. I can only presume it to be the puppet as it is the only thin-bodied animatronic. The implications are certainly terrifying, and if I am gathering this properly it means that the Fredbear Plush in FNAF 4 is the Puppet in disguise. This opens up any number of new questions. Why was the Puppet talking to the child? Why did it disguise himself as Fredbear? Why was it controlling the Nightmares to torment the child? Have we been viewing the Puppet wrong this entire time? Is it, in fact, the true malevolence of the games? I can’t really say for sure if the Puppet is the true killer or what its agenda is, but if that picture has anything going for it… we have a lot to reconsider.
Amirite or amirite, Cawthon?
That silhouette looks really awesome!
That plant thing you posted about in the introduction thread looks awesome!
I don't know if you knew this, Nocturne, but GM has a nice bug/feature of not loading sounds in default saves. Idk how yer constructing save files but if it's to allow the game to restart... Well, you might be able to cut a lot out by exploiting this trick I found. Like I said, this is an older GM trick (8.0/8.1) so it /may/ have been removed. Might be easier then what yer currently trying! :)
Gamejolt.com You should look into using some of this guy's games (if he agrees). He's got quite a few... 'unique' characters.
I have to agree. This is a very great article. Very interesting how Nocturne does all this stuff. I never even thought about sounds that much before he mentioned that.
This is a really neat game! I might have a few additions to add. Granted, it probably wouldn't be right now. One of the games is still in development and the other one just kinda faded into the background.
I guess that's where future updates come in, right? ;)
Crash and burn. Well, I think this means you failed in your "challenge" towards me. Next time, don't post something so over the top. Nobody will think you're serious.
Not reading the rules is never an excuse. Read the rules, then play the game. That's how it always works on any site.
A person should be smart enough not to ban evade. There shouldn't be a need to mention IP banning. It's common practice on any site.
Hey man how's it going! Btw, don't be too hard on choochu. He explained when I showing him around the base. He thought I was trying to attack him and you. We were chatting in pm so he had no idea we were allies! Be happy that he has enough integrity to not run and leave you behind. :)
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